Curriculum
Students in each discipline have the option to choose additional courses from a list that is specific to their field. The training may include additional clinical experience, readings from a reference list appropriate to the student’s goals, and individual seminars with faculty or staff. The curriculum topics for the social work internship are listed below:
- Adherence Concerns
- Adolescence
- Anxiety in Pulmonary Patients
- Assessment of Asthma Patients
- Assessment of Cystic Fibrosis Patients
- Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches
- Changes in the American Healthcare System
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Child Health Organizations/Resources
- Clinical Interventions with Asthma Patients and Families
- Clinical Interventions with Cystic Fibrosis Patients and Families
- Death and Dying
- Depression in Chronic Illness
- Eating/Feeding Problems
- Economic Issues in Health Care
- Ethical Issues
- Family Issues in Asthma
- Family Issues in Cystic Fibrosis
- Group Dynamics
- Human Development and Chronic Illness
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Parenting
- Personality Functioning
- Pregnancy in Cystic Fibrosis
- Psychodynamic Theory
- Psychosocial Issues in Chronic Illness
- Research Design
- Social Work in Health Care
- Systems Theory/Organizational Change
- Therapy Skills